More than 150 people jammed into the Kickapoo Valley Reserve meeting room in rural La Farge on Thursday, demanding to know why oversight of the 8,569-acre property would be shifted from the Department of Tourism to the Department of Natural Resources under a proposal in Gov. Scott Walker’s 2015­–2017 biennium budget.

In light of Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to transfer Kickapoo Valley Reserve management from the Department of Tourism to the Department of Natural Resources, state Rep. Lee Nerison and state Sen. Jennifer Shilling will meet with the KVR management board at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19.

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Finding no controlled substances, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office conducted K-9 drug checks at Brookwood and Cashton high schools and middle schools Wednesday, according to Monroe County Sheriff Scott Perkins.

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